Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

A vision should be attainable subject to current times and its ability to adapt to changing times.

Listen, the idea that I might be a fashion soothsayer is very flattering but completely inaccurate.

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

People like everything to work out, and anytime you don't make everything work out perfectly, you really are fighting against what most people are going to the movies for, especially in the summer.

Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.

Faith has nothing to do with circumstances, it deals entirely with the Word of God.

To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

I like to layer when I fly - the climate always changes from the airport to the plane to the new city.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.